Routledge Studies in Anthropology
Anthropology in the Making: Research in Health and Development
1st Edition
By Laurent Vidal
December 18, 2017
In Anthropology in the Making, Laurent Vidal takes the reader into the world of research in the fields of health and development, providing a fresh and provocative perspective on the practice of anthropology. This volume investigates the “science of otherness” across four multi-disciplinary ...
Diagnostic Controversy: Cultural Perspectives on Competing Knowledge in Healthcare
1st Edition
Edited
By Carolyn Smith-Morris
December 18, 2017
This collection is dedicated to the diagnostic moment and its unrivaled influence on encompassment and exclusion in health care. Diagnosis is seen as both an expression and a vehicle of biomedical hegemony, yet it is also a necessary and speculative tool for the identification of and response to ...
Environmentalism, Ethical Trade, and Commodification: Technologies of Value and the Forest Stewardship Council in Chile
1st Edition
By Adam Henne
December 18, 2017
This book explores the global connections between Chilean landscapes and Northern consumers embodied by the Forest Stewardship Council logo, the green seal of approval for certified sustainably-produced "good wood." How do we decide what makes good forestry? What knowledges and values are expressed...
Ethnographies in Pan Pacific Research: Tensions and Positionings
1st Edition
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By Robert E. Rinehart, elke emerald, Rangi Matamua
December 18, 2017
The book is about exciting ethnographic happenings in the vibrant and growing global interface which includes Australia, New Zealand, and some of the Asian geographical regions, as well as - more broadly - the global South. It explores ethnographic writing as culture(s) (re)produced, ...
HIV/AIDS and the Social Consequences of Untamed Biomedicine: Anthropological Complicities
1st Edition
By Graham Fordham
December 18, 2017
Drawing on the case of HIV/AIDS in Thailand, this book examines how anthropological and other interpretative social science research has been utilized in modeling the AIDS epidemic, and in the design and implementation of interventions. It argues that much social science research has been complicit...
Magical Consciousness: An Anthropological and Neurobiological Approach
1st Edition
By Susan Greenwood, Erik D. Goodwyn
December 18, 2017
How does a mind think magically? The research documented in this book is one answer that allows the disciplines of anthropology and neurobiology to come together to reveal a largely hidden dynamic of magic. Magic gets to the very heart of some theoretical and methodological difficulties encountered...
Negotiating Territoriality: Spatial Dialogues Between State and Tradition
1st Edition
Edited
By Allan Charles Dawson, Laura Zanotti, Ismael Vaccaro
December 18, 2017
This edited collection disrupts dominant narratives about space, states, and borders, bringing comparative ethnographic and geographic scholarship in conversation with one another to illuminate the varied ways in which space becomes socialized via political, economic, and cognitive appropriation. ...
Student Mobility and Narrative in Europe: The New Strangers
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Murphy-Lejeune
December 18, 2017
Bringing together case studies and theory, this book is the first in-depth qualitative study of student migration within Europe. Drawing on the theory of 'the stranger' as a sociological type, the author suggests that the travelling European students can be seen as a new migratory elite. The book ...
The Anthropology of Postindustrialism: Ethnographies of Disconnection
1st Edition
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By Ismael Vaccaro, Krista Harper, Seth Murray
December 18, 2017
This volume explores how mechanisms of postindustrial capitalism affect places and people in peripheral regions and de-industrializing cities. While studies of globalization tend to emphasize localities newly connected to global systems, this collection, in contrast, analyzes the ...
Islam, Standards, and Technoscience: In Global Halal Zones
1st Edition
By Johan Fischer
May 24, 2017
This book explores the role of halal production, trade, and standards based on ethnographic material from Malaysia, Singapore, and Europe. It explains how the global markets for halal comprise divergent zones in which Islam, markets, regulatory institutions, and technoscience interact and diverge....
Climate Change and Tradition in a Small Island State: The Rising Tide
1st Edition
By Peter Rudiak-Gould
October 12, 2015
The citizens of the Marshall Islands have been told that climate change will doom their country, and they have seen confirmatory omens in the land, air, and sea. This book investigates how grassroots Marshallese society has interpreted and responded to this threat as intimated by local observation,...
Times of Security: Ethnographies of Fear, Protest and the Future
1st Edition
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By Martin Holbraad, Morten Axel Pedersen
September 29, 2015
In the current world disorder, security is on everyone’s lips. But what is security from a cross-cultural perspective? How is it imagined and experienced by people on the ground? Crucially, what visions of the future are at stake in people’s potentially divergent concerns with security: what, and ...